Tourism probably started in Roman times. Rich Romans visited friends and family who were working in another part of the Roman Empire. But when the empire broke down, this kind of tourism stopped.

   In the early 17^th century, the idea of the “Grand Tour” was born. Rich young English people sailed across the English Channel（英吉利海峽）. They visited the most beautiful and important European cities of the time, including Paris in France, and Rome and Venice in Italy. Their tours lasted for two to four years, and the tourists stayed a few weeks or months in each city. The “Grand Tour” was an important part of young people’s education---but only for the rich.

In the 18^th century, tourism began to change. For example, people in the UK started to visit some towns, such as Bath to “take the waters”. They believed that the water there was good for their health. So large and expensive hotels were built in these towns.

In the 19^th century, travel became much more popular and faster. When the first railways were built in the 1820s, it was easier for people to travel towns, so they started to go for holidays by the sea. And some started to have holidays in the countryside as cities became larger, noisier and dirtier.

Traveling by sea also became faster and safer when the first steamships were built. People began to travel more to faraway countries.

The 20^th century saw cars become more and more popular among ordinary people. Planes were made larger, so ticket prices dropped and more people used them.

Thus tourism grew. In 1949, Russian journalist Vladimir Raitz started a company called Horizon Holidays. The company organizes everything---plane tickets, hotel rooms, even food----and tourists pay for it all before they leave home. The package tour and modern tourist industry was born.

The first travel agency in China was set up as early as 1949. But tourism did not take off until 1978. In 2002, the industry was 500 billion yuan and became an important part of China’s social development.

In the early times, the travelers _____.

   A. all came from Roman    B. were very young and strong 

   C. had lots of money       D. traveled by boat

Which is NOT true about “Grand Tour”?

   A. It was a long journey.    B. The young men learned a lot from it.

   C. Those who took the tour weren’t rich.    D. Most of its destinations were in Europe.

_____ played the most important role in the tourism development.

  A. Education     B. Money     C. Transportation     D. People’s ideas

Modern tourism was born _______.

  A. in 1949    B. in Roman times  C. in the early 17^th century   D. in the early 19^th century

The underlined phrase “take off” in the last paragraph means ______.

  A. a plane rising into the air    B. develop very fast 

  C. remove hats and clothes     D. bring down the prices

It was ________ that saw a lot of close matches in the 16^th Asian Games in November, 2010.

A. Guangzhou              B. located in Guangzhou

C. in the city of Guangzhou   D. held in Guangzhou

When asked the reason for moving to the USA, he said, “Soccer is huge around the world apart from America, so that’s_________ I want to make a difference.”

  A. where            B. why             C. what             D. how

完形填空（共15小題；每小題2分，滿分30分）

    閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從1-15各題所給的A、B、C和D項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

     Is it difficult for you to get up in the morning? Do you sometimes oversleep？ Are you often late for work or school? Yes? Then  Hiroyuki Sugiyama of Japan has a(an)    1   bed for you. Hiroyuki's bed will get you up in the morning! Here is how it      2    .

     The bed    3   an alarm clock. First, the alarm clock rings. You have a few minutes to wake up. Next, a tape recorder in the bed plays   4   music or other pleasant sounds.The tape recorder in Hiroyuki's bed plays a recording of his girlfriend. She whispers in a sweet   5  , "Wake up, darling, please." A few minutes later, a second recording    6   . The sound recording can be loud music or   7  sounds. Hiroyuki hears a recording of his boss shouts, "Wake up immediately,   8 you'll be late!"

     If you don't get up  9  the second recording, you will be sorry! A mechanical

"foot" is in the bed. The mechanical foot kicks you in the head. Then the bed waits a few  10  minutes. What! You're still in bed! Slowly the   11  of the bed rises higher and higher. The foot of the bed goes lower and lower. 12 the bed is vertical(垂直的). You slide off the bed and onto the floor. You are out of bed and  13 

     Hiroyuki made his bed because he wanted to   14   a contest. He works for Honda

Motor Company. Once every two years Honda has a contest for its 200,000 employees

---"All-Honda Idea Contest", The employees think of new ideas. If their ideas win, the employees win   15   . Hiroyuki Sugiyama won a lot of money for his bed.

1. A. expensive      B. special       C. valuable      D. comfortable

2. A. works          B. runs          C. happens       D. moves

3. A. is separated from                B. is made up of

   C. is attached to                   D. is made into

4. A. loud           B. classical      C. pop          D. soft

5. A. sound          B. voice          C. noise        D. way

6. A. sends          B. turns          C. plays        D. appears

7. A. pleasant       B. interesting    C. unpleasant   D. funny

8. A. and            B. but            C. so           D. or

9. A. after          B. until          C. since        D. before

10. A. other         B. another        C. more         D. one

11. A. end           B. middle         C. body         D. top

12. A. However       B. Finally        C. Therefore    D. Otherwise

13. A. angry         B. work           C. happy        D. awake

14. A. win           B. achieve        C. gain         D. defeat

15. A. praises        B. contents       C. prizes        D. medals

A study shows that students living in non-smoking dormitories are less likely to ________ the habit of smoking.

A. pick up        B. turn up        C. draw up   D. make up

Many lifestyle patterns do such           great harm to health that they actually speed up

           weakening of the human body.

    A. a; /                 B. /; the               C. a; the               D. /;/

Let’s hold a party to      your birthday and at the same time      you on your passing the driving test.

   A. congratulate; celebrate        B. celebrate; celebrate

   C. celebrate; congratulate        D. congratulate; congratulate

Before the college entrance examination, many students have shown________of tension.

Some have trouble in sleeping while others have lost their appetite.

A．a(chǎn)nxiety           B．marks                C．signs              D．remarks

Officials in a remote Russian city have drawn up a list of practical tips for locals on how to survive encounters (相遇) with bears, after growing numbers have wandered into the streets in search of food.

Officials in the city of Syktyvkar drew up the guidelines to guide the local people, after several bears were caught sight of in the city, going hungry after a heat wave shriveled their usual diet of nuts and berries.

The guide warns that city people there should stay calm and stand still if they meet with a bear. “Speak to the bear in a firm voice” and “Don’t turn your back on it,” it adds. In the worst case, if the bear attacks, the person should also be ready to attack, the guide says. “Shout angrily at it and look it straight in the eye,” the guide advises. “Bears have started coming into the areas where people live more and more often,” the city officials said in a statement. “Any encounter with a bear is unsafe for humans, so our task is to do all we can to prevent such accidents.”

In September, a bear attacked a 25-year-old man in a central street of the city, wounding him in the neck before he managed to run away, police said. “Three or four people who met with brown bears have been recorded recently,” the head of the hunting department in the regional agriculture organization, Alexander said.

Officials have asked police to patrol (巡邏) streets close to wooded areas in the evenings.

Syktyvkar is the regional capital of the remote Komi region in northwest Russia. Its population is just over 230,000.

The city issued the guidelines to help the local people to _____.

A. avoid bear encounters    B. survive bear encounters

C. get along well with bears    D. drive hungry bears away

The underlined word “shriveled” in Paragraph 2 probably means _____.

A. piled up     B. saved up     C. kept up  D. dried up

What can be inferred from Alexander’s words?

A. Bears have been seen frequently recently.

B. Bears like to wander around schools.

C. Brown bears are usually very fierce.

D. Too many bears have disappeared.

What would be the best title for the passage?

A. Bears are short of food worldwide   

B. Ways to got along well with bears

C. Tips are issued on bear encounters  

D. Bears have started coming into cities

根據(jù)句意及所給漢語寫出正確形式的詞組。(每空0.5分，共5分)

1) I don’t know who the house _________ _______. (屬于)

2）_____ ______ _________(說實(shí)話), I do hate the movie.

3) We do not know when this world ______ ______ _______. (形成)

4) The picture __________ her _______ (使…想起) Scotland.